Organising and deploying forces for key battles in offensive campaigns in a Fatherland protection war
Monday, March 17, 2025, 10:19 (GMT+7)
In case of a Fatherland protection war, offensive operations can be conducted at the outset and throughout the war on various scales, featuring key and decisive battles. Securing victory in these critical engagements requires commanders and relevant agencies to address numerous challenges. Chief among these is the organisation and deployment of forces, which necessitates further research and application in line with rapidly evolving battlefield circumstances
Tank and Armoured Brigade 409 focuses on raising its synergy and combat power
Thursday, January 23, 2025, 14:01 (GMT+7)
The Brigade has comprehensively renewed training and exercises according to Resolution 19-NQ/ĐU, dated 16 March 2023, by the Military Region Party Committee, on “raising the quality of training in the period of 2023 - 2030 and beyond”. To achieve the established targets and goals, the Brigade has focused on synchronous, specialised training courses relevant to combat reality and the particularities of its operational areas
Live-fire combined rotating exercise of Division 9 – some food for thought
Tuesday, December 24, 2024, 10:45 (GMT+7)
Improving the quality of live-fire combined rotating exercises is an urgent requirement of special importance in improving the combat capability and combat strength of infantry divisions. This issue should be further studied and discussed, in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of this important work.
Division 302 intensely improves the overall quality and combat power
Sunday, October 27, 2024, 22:39 (GMT+7)
Effectively executing of solutions has an important meaning, which creates a foundation for the Division to improve its overall quality and combat power, be ready to successfully accomplish all assigned tasks, deserving the title of Hero of the People’s Armed Forces awarded by the Party and State.
Promoting its heroic tradition, Commando Brigade 198 raises the quality of training and combat readiness
Saturday, August 17, 2024, 20:38 (GMT+7)
To keep pace with the development of its task requirements, the Brigade has focused on making itself “exemplarily, typically” comprehensively strong, raising its synergy and combat power, and particularly improving the quality of training and combat readiness as a central task via many practical, effective measures
Air Defence Division 365 makes synchronous solutions for managing and firmly protecting the airspace
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 09:19 (GMT+7)
Clearly understanding the honour and responsibility of the “sky-guarding” soldiers, the Air Defence Division 365 has continued to bring into play the spirit of solidarity, coordination, proactiveness and creativity to build the “elite, compact, strong” unit, together with other forces in the Air Defence-Air Force Service to successfully accomplish the task of managing and firmly protecting the Fatherland’s airspace in all situations.
French generals’ admission of defeat in Dien Bien Phu
Wednesday, May 08, 2024, 07:08 (GMT+7)
The battle of 1954 Dien Bien Phu took place 70 years ago, about which there have been a lot of books and articles by foreign generals, politicians, scholars and journalists. People around the world continue to wonder why Vietnam, a small, poor, low-tech country which had just successfully carried out the August Revolution with its nascent army, was able to defeat French colonialists. In order to answer this question, the article will briefly relate admissions by French generals who joined the war in Indochina in general, the battle of Dien Bien Phu in particular
Air Defence Brigade 673 with good training and high combat readiness
Saturday, March 30, 2024, 17:24 (GMT+7)
Given the task requirements in the new situation, Air Defence Brigade 673 has continuously strived to successfully accomplish the breakthrough of “good training and high combat readiness”, and regularly improve the overall quality and combat power, making contribution to building the “elite, compact and strong” Corps 12 towards modernity, firmly safeguarding the airspace of the Fatherland.
Coast Guard Region 3 focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement at sea
Tuesday, December 26, 2023, 19:40 (GMT+7)
To manage and protect extensive water under challenging climate and weather conditions, and amid increasingly sophisticated and complex criminal activities, particularly smuggling, trade fraud, and the activities of foreign vessels violating sovereignty, illegal mineral exploration, and illegal fishing, in recent years, the Region has implemented comprehensive solutions to overcome challenges to resolutely maintain security, order, and safety at sea, create a favourable environment for economic development and diplomacy, and firmly protect national sovereignty, territory and islands.
A distinct demonstration of the art of encirclement in Route 9 - Khe Sanh Campaign of 1968
Monday, July 31, 2023, 15:11 (GMT+7)
Over half a century ago, to realise a strategic diversion action in preparation for the General Offensive and Uprising of 1968 throughout the South, we launched a large-scale combined arms offensive campaign at the Khe Sanh - Route 9 and achieved a great victory. The Campaign left behind valuable experiences in military art, among which the distinct feature was the art of encircling and cutting off the enemy.